Archive for October, 2009
New Sony Ericsson Rachael UI video hits, still looks nothing like Android
Calling that Rachael UI an Android “skin” is like calling Windows 95 a “DOS skin,” but that’s not to say there’s nothing to love about it. In fact, we’re rather relieved that Sony Ericsson seems to be addressing Android’s incredibly lackluster media playback interface, the SE “mediascape” version o…
ATI’s dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 pictured in the wilderness
And now… fighting out of the red corner, weighing in with two Evergreen GPUs, and wearing black trunks and red trim, it’s the Radeon HD 5970. ATI’s latest challenger for the title of undisputed graphics champion has been snared in the wild, and its photo shoot reveals a suitably oversized beast. …
Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone
Why restrict your nerdy sloth to your living room, where large robots mime fake guitar and serve you sloppy mixed drinks? Take that zest for the sedentary life with you on the road by having one of your robot ninjas steal that iPhone Rock Band robot from its ingenious creator, Joe Bowers. The Ardui…
iPhone and Windows 7 don’t play nice, Intel P55 chipset to blame
The iPhone is one of the most wildly popular phones the world has ever seen, while Windows 7 is well on its way to becoming the globe’s most ubiquitous OS. So compatibility amidst the two would be kinda sorta critical, right? Tell that to Intel’s quality control team who seem to have somehow missed…
Engadget Podcast 169 - 10.31.2009
Tired of all the DROID talk? Well, brawny cookies, mister. Nilay, Paul and Josh have a lot to say on the subject, and you’re just going to have to sit there and take it. Or you could skip the first 40 minutes of that week’s podcast, but that’s just a recipe for regret. whether you do stick it out…
Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which?
Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn’t — but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; whether nothing else, Synergy supports Ya…
Leaked docs show HTC’s DROID Eris launching on November 6th for $99, running Android 1.5
Like it or not, we’ve got it on pretty fair authority that HTC’s first “DROID” phone is nothing more than a rebadged, shape-shifted Hero (something we’ve been hearing for a while now), and that it’ll be launching on Verizon on November 6th, the same day as Motorola’s DROID. That means Android 1.5 “…
